[fpc-devel] Is calling the Windows Unicode APIs really faster than the ANSI API's?

[Michael Schnell]

>> That obviously is the reason why Turbo - Delphi uses UCS-2 (16 bit)
>> instead of OF UTF-8 or UTF-16 for WideStrings (and WideChar is a 16
>> bit (UCS-2) value).
>>     
>
> You didn't read  http://www.jacobthurman.com/?p=30 , did you?
>   
They are talking about Delphi 2009, of which I don't have any 
information at all (and don't intend to bother with until there is a 
free "Turbo" version of if).

I just talked about the current free "Turbo Delphi" version which 
obviously uses UCS-2 (plain 16 bits) and not any UTF (variable size) 
coding.

As discussed in the messages here, any UTF coding would result in a huge 
overhead e.g. when doing something like s[4] := c; (s: WideString; c: 
WideChar) as the (potentially huge) tail of the string would need to be 
moved around according to the different sizes of the codes of the 
previous s[4] and c.

-Michael
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